1. This competition is governed by the following Terms of Participation. Participants must agree to and comply with these Terms to participate.

2. Users can make a maximum number of 10 submissions per day. If users want to submit new files after making 10 submissions in a day, they will have to wait until the following day to do so. Please keep this in mind when uploading a submission file. Any attempt to circumvent stated limits will result in disqualification.

3. The use of external datasets is not allowed. (If it’s allowed, please go to the below section “Use of External datasets” to see what would be required from participants)

4. It is not allowed to upload the competition dataset to other websites. Users who do not comply with this rule will be disqualified.

5. A competition prize will be awarded after we have received, successfully executed, and confirmed the validity of both the code and the solution (See 6.). Once winners are announced and our team reaches out to them, the winners must provide the following by June 25, 2025 to be qualified as a competition winner and receive their prize:
a. All source files required to preprocess the data
b. All source files required to build, train and make predictions with the model using the processed data
c. A requirements.txt (or equivalent) file indicating all the required libraries and their versions as needed
d. A ReadMe file containing the following:
• Clear and unambiguous instructions on how to reproduce the predictions from start to finish including data pre-processing, feature extraction, model training, and predictions generation
• Environment details regarding where the model was developed and trained, including OS, memory (RAM), disk space, CPU/GPU used, and any required environment configurations required to execute the code
• Clear answers to the following questions:
- Which data files are being used?
- How are these files processed?
- What is the algorithm used and what are its main hyperparameters?
- Any other comments considered relevant to understanding and using the model

6. The submitted solution should be able to generate exactly the same output that gives the corresponding score on the leaderboard. If the score obtained from the code is different from what’s shown on the leaderboard, the new score will be used for the final rankings unless a logical explanation is provided. Please make sure to set the seed or random_state etc. so we can obtain the same result from your code. 

7. The final submission has to be selected manually before the end of the competition (you can select up to 2), or else it will be selected automatically based on your highest public score.

8. In order to be eligible for the prize, the competition winner must agree to transfer to the Host and the relevant transferee of rights in such Competition all transferable rights, such as copyrights, rights to obtain patents and know-how, etc. in and to all analysis and prediction results, reports, analysis and prediction model, algorithm, source code and documentation for the model reproducibility, etc., and the Submissions contained in the Final Submissions.

9. Any prize awards are subject to eligibility verification and compliance with these Terms of Participation. All decisions of bitgrit will be final and binding on all matters relating to this Competition.

10. Payments to winners may be subject to local, state, federal and foreign tax reporting and withholding requirements.

11. If two or more participants have the same score on the leaderboard, the participant who submitted the winning file first will be considered the winner.

12. All submissions must be made individually; no teams are allowed in this competition. Users who do not comply with this rule will be immediately disqualified in the case that we find the same or very similar scores and/or uploaded solutions.

13. If you have any inquiries about this competition, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at info@bitgrit.net.